Join us to hear John Gray, bestselling author of Straw Dogs, talk about his new book Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, a truly frightening and challenging work by one of the country's leading political thinkers and philosophers.

Obscurely mixed with geopolitical struggles for the control of natural resources, apocalyptic religion has returned as a major force in global conflict. John Gray?s powerful new book argues that the death of utopia does not mean peace. Instead it portends the resurgence of ancient myths, now in openly fundamentalist forms. Obscurely mixed with geopolitical struggles for the control of natural resources, apocalyptic religion has returned as a major force in global conflict.